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'''Warner Bros' Histeria!''' was one of several shows created in part as a result of
One season (52 of the planned 65) of episodes were produced before the show was cancelled over budget concerns (i.e. being $10 million over it), then were repeated numerous times for the next three seasons before being taken off the network in 2001. Unlike its predecessors, ''Histeria!'' did not reappear in syndication on [[Cartoon Network]] or [[Nickelodeon]]. The show would've been forgotten altogether (''But not by '''us'''!'') if not for the fact that, in 2006, it reappeared as part of the initial lineup of Time Warner's In2TV channel until they were inexplicably removed in January 2009.
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* [[Abhorrent Admirer]]: Cleopatra
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* [[Anachronism Stew]]: Historical figures from different times tend to appear in other times, usually in crowd shots.
* [[Animated Actors]]
* [[Ax Crazy]]: Lizzie Borden is portrayed this way. In one episode, she refers to herself as the "[[O. J. Simpson|O.J. [Simpson]]] of 1849."
* [[Beach Episode]]: "The Dawn of Time" ends with the cast hanging out at the beach.
* [[Big Eater]]: Froggo.
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* [[Cross-Dressing Voices]]: Tress MacNeille as Toast.
* [[Crossover]]: Some of the ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' characters made a few cameos.
** A notable one is [[Superman: The Animated Series|Clark Kent]] as well... William Clark
* [[Cut Short]]: Unlike with its Speilberg-produced predecessors, ''Histeria!'' had no [[Grand Finale]] other than audio of the characters singing a goodbye song over the end credits of the last episode produced.
* [[Depending on the Artist]] / [[Off-Model]]: Happens quite a bit with the kids, especially Froggo. The artists couldn't decide whether he was supposed to be chubby or thin or somewhere in between.
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* [[Fictional Video Game]]: Froggo and Toast are shown playing a fighting game starring two Big Fat Babies in "Better Living Through Science".
* [[Fluffy Cloud Heaven]]
*[[Foot Focus]]
* [[Four-Fingered Hands]]
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: Big Fat Baby's flatulence, Mr. Smartypants being a man who "spends a lot of time in his pants", two episodes using the words "Hell" and "Damn," and [[Sappho]] "wasn't into men".
** Perhaps part of the reason for this was that the show often had Lydia Karaoke, Network Censor complain about this trope.
*** In one episode, they were talking about ancient Greece and the vestal virgins. One of the kids asked what a virgin was and World's Oldest Woman replied "Let's just say, we didn't do a lot of dating."
** Literal example when Mr. Smartypants relays the history of the toilet to the viewers, and getting to say "crapper".
*** Another literal example was [[Notable Original Music]] "Cowpie".
** As stated, this is maybe the only kids' cartoon besides Gargoyles made between 1980 and today to get both "Hell" and "Damn" in wholesale and blatantly. Both times were quotes ("War is hell!" and "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!") and both times the in-show censor had a CONNIPTION fit over it.
{{quote|'''David Farragut:''' Damn the torpedoes!
'''Lydia Karaoke:''' WHOA! You can't say that word! That word is a no-no! }}
*** Admiral Farragut, "played by" [[Clint Eastwood]], yelled at her that it was wartime, there was no time for pleasantries, and eventually threw her overboard directly onto said torpedoes (used in the then-current method to refer to what are now called "mines.") She even waved a little white flag, "Okay, now I see why they used 'Damn the torpedos'!"
** All in all, not so much "getting past" the radar, as running over the radar dish with a bulldozer.
* [[Gender Flip]]: A promo where they flipped every word they could find from male to female and vice versa.
** i.e. 'Hers'teria
* [[A Good Name for a Rock Band]]: Toast decides to name his band Nasty Head Wound after Daniel Boone suffers an actual head wound.
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** Lydia Karaoke the Network Censor is voiced by Nora Dunn from ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' (she was the female cast member who got fired from the show for refusing to appear in the episode hosted by Andrew "Dice" Clay because she hated his vulgar sense of humor).
** In the episode about World War II, [[Adolf Hitler]] sounded like [[Inspector Gadget|Dr. Claw]].
** Sitting Bull is apparently possessed by [[Candle Jack]].
** Viewers of Disney's One Saturday Morning can pretty much recognize Nostradamus as Manny the Uncanny.
*** ...He also played the [[Jerry Lewis]]-inspired director on ''[[Animaniacs]]''.
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* [[In Case You Forgot Who Wrote It]]: The show's full title is ''Warner Bros.' Histeria!''
* [[Idea Bulb]] (played with in the sketch about Thomas Edison)
* [[If It Tastes Bad, It Must Be Good for You]]: Somewhat parodied because [[George
* [[Incessant Music Madness]]: There's a [[Civil War]] skit accompanied by violin music - eventually the soldier [[Sorry I Left the BGM On|starts complaining about the music]] and winds up eating his own head so he won't have to hear it.
* [[Karmic Trickster]]: Loud Kiddington, particularly in the Mounties sketch.
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** The episode involving the Underground Railroad was a rare exception. [[Berserk Button|You do NOT make fun of slavery in America - or in most of the rest of the world, come to that.]]
* [[Running Gag]]:
** Pepper constantly mistaking historical celebrities for pop cultural ones, never realizing her mistake until she's gotten their autograph. For instance, mistaking Vladimir Lenin for [[The Beatles (band)|John Lennon]].
** Loud watching something and alternating between "See it, see it..." and "DON'T SEE IT!! DON'T SEE IT!!" depending on whether he sees it.
** The last time the Big Fat Baby had his diaper changed. Whenever someone asked, a character would respond by asking, "Remember when [insert historical event here]?" The inquirer would respond affirmatively, the character would respond with "Before that."
** In sketches where Loud and Fetch are running a business, Loud says that if he can't make a deal, Fetch will eat something disgusting, which said dog will get upset about.
* [[Screwed by the Network]]: The show's time slots kept changing during its inaugural year on Kids' WB!, eventually taking it off the Saturday morning block altogether and settling into airing only on weekday mornings after ''Pokemon'' - too late for kids to watch it on school mornings, and too early for them to wake up for on vacation mornings.
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** The ''[[Pinky and The Brain]]'' theme music can be heard when Chit Chatterson mentions brain removal in a sketch about mummification.
*** As well as part of the background music for the introduction to Nikola Tesla's later life.
** Clark Kent's appearance as William Clark, of course. Additionally, Superman made two other cameos as himself (one of which had his "S" emblem written as "F", which some have speculated is a nod to ''[[Freakazoid!]]!'').
** Fetch bears a bit of resemblance to Hunter from ''[[Road Rovers]]''. This could just be a result the Kids' WB! "house style" though. Notably, though, the last episode contains a brief gag in which Fetch dashes onstage joined by dogs who appear to be of the same breeds as Blitz, Exile, and Shag.
** The Revolutionary War episode (I think it was that episode, only remember seeing a handful of episodes) had a segment where the action was "called" by parodies of the lead [[
** the sketch about the Boston Tea Party ends up being a homage to Monty Python's Cheese Shop sketch, replacing types of cheeses with types of tea (and even having John Cleese do a voice cameo)
** One alternate opening credit is done exactly in the style of ''[[Saturday Night Live]]''.
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* [[Who's on First?]]: This pops up during Father Time's attempt to quiz Lucky Bob and Susanna about the Zhou Dynasty.
** Also done in the Lewis and Clark sketch when Lewis asks Clark which way to turn on the river.
* [[Writing Lines]]: In a parody of the intro to ''[[The Simpsons(animation)|The Simpsons]]'', Loud has to write "I do not need a megaphone!"
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